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Publishing your findings in the most general sense is an integral part of knowledge aggregation and transfer. I think we should support people as best we can with that, as long as the question deals w …

In my opinion, SE and CS will have to separate at some point in the future; methods and mindset are too different. This has yet to happen, though, and till then SE is ontopic on cs.SE, imho.

the purpose of that programming is directly to solve a computer science problem. This is not quite it. The asker may be trying to solve a problem in their domain using computer science (tools). I …

In principle, your questions would be right at home on this site. However, note that you should post good questions only. Some problematic types of questions are "Please solve this exercise for me. …

In my experience, most arguments for declaring a concept of mathematics to be unrelated with computer science stem from limited scope of experience w.r.t. mathematics in CS and assigning measures of … relevance to subjects according to that limited scope. …

As far as I am concerned, the principles of testing are a part of software engineering (here the academic field, not the profession) which is in turn a part of computer science¹. Therefore, questions …

We do have the programming-languages and language-design tags. As long as your questions fall into these categories and are (mostly) language-agnostic they are very welcome!

Thanks for asking! You don't really say what you want to ask, but in all likelihood such a question would be too broad, primarily opinion-based, and offtopic if it's more about the writing than the …

Those things are ontopic, but you have to be careful to post an answerable question. "What is the most efficient algorithm for this problem?" is usually more of a research prompt without clear-cut b …

It seems that our biggest problem is separating CS from related disciplines to some extent. I think this can be best achieved by analogy to fields people have more intuition for. I have attempted to c …

The way I was taught -- yay, one data point! -- questions about how to build CPUs from (abstract) gates (and that includes flip-flops) is part of computer architecture. Construction or physical prope …

Depends. Are your questions about how the algorithm (in pseudocode) can be tested in principle? Such as, which strategies would be appropriate, how to generate random test instances, etc. Then yes, p …

I think most questions that ask for implementations in a specific language are offtopic here. Possible exceptions are questions like "How do I deal with language peculiarity X when implementing nifty …

In this case, we probably should ask the questioner to generalise their question, e.g. "How to efficiently compute the symmetrical difference of linked lists?". This general question is ontopic (even …

Even disregarding that the given question is bad for a number of reasons (it asks for easily obtainable factual knowledge) I think the question is firmly offtopic. It does not ask for help with any co …